Trump sold out transgender troops to win funding for a few miles of his border wall

Trump’s rash decision to disallow transgender people from serving in the military is the result of funding for his Mexican border wall being threatened.

A Politicoreport suggests House Republicans planned to pass a spending bill that included the cash necessary to build 74 miles of his proposed and much-ballyhooed wall, but an internal disagreement over trans troops put the future of that bill on shaky ground.

According to insiders, members of the House GOP were afraid they wouldn’t get enough votes because, as Politico reports, “defense hawks wanted a ban on Pentagon-funded sex reassignment operations — something GOP leaders wouldn’t give them.”